EAN: 9783110294514

CRIME AND PUNISHMENT IN THE MIDDLE AGES AND EAR...

All societies are constructed  based on specific rules  norms  and laws. Hence  all ethics and
morality are predicated on perceived right or wrong behavior  and much of human culture proves
to be the result of a larger discourse on vices and virtues  transgression and ideals  right
and wrong. The topics covered in this volume  addressing fundamental concerns of the premodern
world  deal with allegedly criminal  or simply wrong behavior which demanded punishment.
Sometimes this affected whole groups of people  such as the innocently persecuted Jews 
sometimes individuals  such as violent and evil princes. The issue at stake here embraces all
of society since it can only survive if a general framework is observed that is based in some
way on justice and peace. But literature and the visual arts provide many examples of open and
public protests against wrongdoings  ill-conceived ideas and concepts  and stark crimes  such
as theft  rape  and murder. In fact  poetic statements or paintings could carry significant
potentials against those who deliberately transgressed moral and ethical norms  or who even
targeted themselves.

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